The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-16
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.
Signs Of Progress in Female Education
Growing Interest in Physical Training.
The Florescent Bonnet.


Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
NEW YORK. Oct 15.-The fall bonnet is the
most deceptive thing earth. 1t looks simple,
innocent, utterly without vile or guile, almost
Quakersh in its occurrences. 1t is the most
unassumng bit of headgear that the city has
seen In years. It wins woman's heart and yet
more a man s by its pretty. engaging modesry.
In point of fact that unpretentous little concern
that almost persuaded you bonnet wearers had
for once forsworn the vanities of earth and were
planning return quiet nuns gray is the
most delusive bonnet on earth. It is the most
difficult bonnet to build that ever miiliner
dertook. 1t is the most expensive bonnet to pay
for that ever depleted a masculine pocket book.
1t is the most coquettish bon net on the head
that ever witch of woman wore. 1t is de-
fusion and snare from noddng aigrette to
strings.
In the first place, contrast is easy and har-
mony is hard Bonnets used to affect contrast:
just now harmony is their lay. The present
ideal of bonnet. the bonnet that every woman
expands in raptures over VIII en- she sees it, en-
ploys but one color throughout. and to make de-
ception doubly deceptive that color is color
at ALL Bonnets TO be successful, every good
bonnet aims to be. must just now be 'iores-
cent" You take a dull red and curious olive
green. and You weave them together in ribbon
and velvet. warp of one, wool of the other and
the result changeable fabric that is one hue
in one light and twenty hues in another but
that gives the general effect soft in the velvet
or plush, metallic in the ribbon, of a cop
per tint that is every body's favorite tint
this year You cover your bonnet frame
with the forescent plush-by proxy in shape
of the most deft milIner you can light upon. of
course-puffing it about the face trihe and
planting knotof your forescent ribbon in the
same tints on top. upon the hair Then you
take cluster of horescent ostrich tips-feathers
take to tie changeabe hues very kindly-thruss
aforescent aigrette into the middle of the bunch
and plant it well back upon the crown, not
standing bolt upright, to annoy concert or thea
ter audiences. but nodding gently toward the
front. You tie it with horescent strings and
your task is done. 1t is a bonnet that offers no
challen ge, it's color alters with every flicker of
lignt but it is at every instant of the same color
all over. It looks as if you might have trimmed
1t yourself and vet only few milners can
make a of it. and it costs you $50 where
you used TO pay SIS. 1t is not bonnet in whose
good faith or sincerity one can put any faith. 1t
Is subtly capricious manner, but it is very
charming bonnet after ALL z. p. H.
College improvements.
STeciaI to the Indianapolis
NEW YORK, Oct 15.-There are some inter-
esting names on the list of the classes at Smith
College this fall-the daughter of ex- Governor
Robinson, OF Massachusetts; of Judge Barrett,
of Vermont; of Simon Sterne, the New York
lawyer and writer on social scienc ., and Dora
Goodale, the poet. 1t is just at this season
when the colleges settling down to their
winters work that looks for evidences of
healthful growth in the girls schools and seldom
fails to find them. Smith has new observatory,
completed during the summer, and un der
tine direction of Miss Mary Byrd, a gradu-
ate of Michigan University, and for four years
one of the directors of the observatory Of Garlic
ton College. Minnesota Miss Byrd is a practical
astronomer, and has done original work. An es-
say of hers was recently translated and repub-
lished in of the French scientific reviews.
Smith is also for the first time to have a resi-
dent woman physician. DR.. Grace Preston, ono
of its own alumna. who has since taken medical
degrees at Boston University and in Paris. DIR.
Preston will be demonstrators and lecturer on
anatomy. physiology and hygiene. and IL is be-
lieved that the presence of physician of the
students own sex in the school will go far toward
solving the problems of physical and mental cult
urs as they present themselves in the daily
sofo ri